Jelly Larva

Jelly Larva

Photograph by Ingo Arndt, Minden Pictures

The flower-shaped larva of a scyphomedusa jelly drifts in Antarctica's Weddell Sea.

Fuente:  http://photography.nationalgeographic.

Cráteres de Marte

 Cráteres de Marte
 Imágen de los cráteres de Marte captadas por la 'Mars Reconaissance Orbiter'.
 (Foto: Science)

Fuente: http://memoravel.blogspot.com

Dance of Death

Dance of Death

VENNE, Adriaen Pietersz. van de

1630s
Oil on canvas

The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Fuente: http://www.wga.hu/

The Damned

The Damned being cast into hell

Frans Francken

c. 1605-1610

Fuente: http://commons.wikimedia.org

The Deluge

 The Deluge,  1805
J. M. W. Turner
 Oil painting in the Tate Gallery, London

Fuente: http://en.wikipedia.org/

Three old women beating a Devil

Three old women beating a Devil on the ground
Daniel Hopfer, a 15th Century German arms etcher who adapted the technique of etching

Fuente: http://marinni.livejournal.com

Actinoscyphia

 Actinoscyphia
Anémona atrapamoscas
Golfo de México,  profundidad 1,500 metros

Fuente: http://www.terra.com.mx/

Sansón y el león

Sansón y el León
Cristoforo Stati  (Cristofano Da Bracciano), 
 Italia,  1556 - 1619 
Mármol

Fuente: http://marinni.livejournal.com/

The Wheel of Fortune and the Death

The Wheel of Fortune and the Death below the Tree of Life
Print made by Master of the Banderoles
1450-1475 (c.)
Netherlandish 

Fuente: http://www.britishmuseum.org/

Fifteen Signs of the Last Judgment.

Manuscript page from the Livre de la Vigne Nostre Seigneur, dated 1450-1470.

Fuente: http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/

Coiled Serpent

Coiled Serpent, 15th–early 16th century
Mexico; Aztec
Stone

H. 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm)

Fuente: http://www.metmuseum.org/

The rape of Polyxena

"The rape of Polyxena"  1866
by Pio Fedi
Placed at the Loggia dei Lanzi ( Piazza di la Signoria, Florence, Italy)

Fuente: http://starg691.

La Conscience

Illustration for Victor Hugo's La Conscience, 1877

François-Nicolas Chifflart 

 Charcoal on paper, 56.7 x 41.4 cm

Fuente: http://darkclassics

L'Invidia.

L'Invidia. 
Dettaglio da  Angelo Bronzino, Allegoria del trionfo di Venere (1540-1545). 
Olio su tavola, National Gallery, Londra

Fuente: http://commons.

Eye Snake

Eye Snake
from Reptiglo (tumblr)

Fuente: http://reptiglo.tumblr.com/

Calavera coronada

Calavera con la corona húngara de San Wenceslao
Sarcófago del emperador Carlos  VI de Austria, detalle, h 1740
Cripta imperial de Viena.  Atribuido a Balthasar Ferdinand Moll.

Fuente: http://www.elece.net/

The Chimera

The Chimera 1777–84,  Etching, 27.6 x 35.7 cm
Louis Jean Desprez ,  ca 1743–1804
Auxerre in Bourgogne, France

Fuente: http://educators.mfa.org/

Allegory Of Avarice

Allegory Of Avarice, 1590
Jacopo Ligozzi,  (Verona, 1547 – Florencia, 1626)

Fuente: http://freechristimages.org/

Eternal Drama

The Staglieno Cemetery, Genoa - Italy

Detail of the Valente Celle Tomb, 1893, Eternal Drama
Sculptor: Giulio Monteverde (Bistagno, Alessandria, 1837 - Roma 1917)

Fuente: http://metalonmetalblog.blogspot.com/

Uroplatus phantasticus

Uroplatus phantasticus

 The Satanic Leaf Tailed Gecko

Madagascar

Fuente: http://www.thehabitableplanet.com/

Earth, Moon, Stars

Earth, Moon, Stars, including our Sun 
Photographed from the International Space Station 03:07:44 GMT June 18, 2012 
Credit: NASA

Fuente: https://plus.google.com/

Endymion

Endymion
George Frederic Watts, England (1817-1904)

Oil, 1872

Fuente: http://donaldsweblog.blogspot.com/

Minos

Minos,  en el segundo círculo del infierno
El Jucio Universal,   1537-41 detalle,  Capilla Sixtina, Roma.
Miguel Angel Bounarroti 

Fuente: http://inklikemunchies.wordpress.com/

Serpentinentänzerin

Serpentinentänzerin (Bailarina serpentina) 1901

Kolo Moser (1868-1818) Wien

Bleistift, Aquarell auf Papier 

Fuente: http://commons.wikimedia.org/

Sea Butterfly

Sea Butterfly
Clione limacina, common name Naked Sea Butterfly or Common Clione, 
Found from the surface to 350 m in depth. Lives in both Arctic & Antarctic Oceans

Fuente: http://www.thehabitableplanet.com/151

Winged Demons

Winged Demons
Hieronymus Bosch  born Jheronimus van Aken .
(1450 –  1516)

Fuente: http://www.wallpapers-free.co.uk/

Memento mori

Memento mori
Life cycles: memento mori tomb scene carved from a single piece of ivory
c. 1650, artist and origin unknown

                                       Fuente: http://www.dukemagazine.duke

Laocoön and the serpent

Laocoön and his sons, also known as the Laocoön Group. 
Marble, copy after an Hellenistic original from ca. 200 BC. Found in the Baths of Trajan, 1506.
Photo Marie-Lan Nguyen (2009)

Fuente: http://commons.wikimedia.org/

Dionea muscipula

Dionea muscipula
Venus atrapamoscas,   planta carnívora que se alimenta de  insectos

Fuente: http://www.ojocientifico.com/

Venus transit

2012 Venus Transit

Credit: Data courtesy of NASA/SDO, HMI, and AIA science teams.

Fuente: http://venustransit.gsfc.nasa.gov/

The triumph of death

The triumph of death
Print made by Georg Pencz,  c 1539
 From a series of six engravings

Fuente: http://marinni.livejournal.com/

Cristo velato

Cristo Velato
Giuseppe Sanmartino, 1753
Mormo
Cappella San Severo

Fuente: http://www.museosansevero.it/

Die Pest

Die Pest, 1898
Arnold Böcklin (1827 in Basel - 1901 in San Domenico bei Fiesole, Provinz Florenz)
Kunstmuseum Basel

Fuente: http://www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch/

Bat Flower

Common name: Bat Flower, Cat's Whiskers, Devil Flower
Botanical name:Tacca chantrieri    
Family: Taccaceae (bat flower family)

Fuente: http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/

Batalla de Zama

Cornelius Cort
Batalla de Zama
Grabado, 1567

Fuente: http://www.gla.ac.uk/

Les Enfers

Francois de Nome  (1593 -  162?)
Les Enfers, 1622
Oil on canvas

Fuente: http://philippe.gambette.free.fr/

Anatomía Humana

John Bell (1763-1820) 
"Atlas de Anatomía Humana"
Londres, 1820.

Fuente: http://galerianocturna-triplex.blogspot.com/

Red Jellyfish

Trachymedusae
Voragonema pedunculata is a small red jellyfish. It has 1000-2000 fine tentacles. It is found in the Pacific Ocean

Fuente: http://animal-planet.wapgroups.com/

Four Horsemen and Throne Room

Four Horsemen and Throne Room

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794-1872)
1860. This is one of the most popular Bible illustrations.

Fuente: http://commons.wikimedia.org/

Hamlet and his father's Ghost

Henry Fuseli   (1741–1825)
Hamlet and his father's Ghost 
1780-1785, ink and pencil on cardboard

Fuente: http://en.wikipedia.org/

Lucha entre dragón y león

Leonardo da Vinci
Lucha entre dargón y león
1584
Dibujo considerado copia del original

Funte: http://www.artfinder.com/

Le Songe de Tartini

Le songe de Tartini, 1824
Louis Léopold Boilly
Illustration de l'anecdote légendaire sur l'origine de la Sonate des trilles du Diable de Giuseppe Tartini. 

Fuente: http://gallica.bnf.fr/

Bornella stellifer

Bornella stellifer
(Adams & Reeve, 1848)

Order:NUDIBRANCHIA DENDRONOTINA
Bornellidae

Fuente: http://www.seaslugforum.net/bornstel.htm

Actinoscyphia sp

Bioluminescent mucus secreted from the venus fly trap anemone (Actinoscyphia sp.)
The Johnsen Lab

Fuente: http://www.biology.duke.edu/

Invidiam

Invidiam  (Enviadia)

Jacob de Gheyn II(1565 - 1629)

Grabdado

Fuente: http://marinni.livejournal.com/

La Batalla de Lepanto

La Batalla de Lepanto
Gustave Doré,   "Historia de Las Cruzadas"
Grabado,  1892

Fuente: http://www.archive.org/

The Battle of Hannibal and Scipio at Zama

Cornelis Cort,  (1533-1578) 
The Battle of Hannibal and Scipio at Zama,  1567
Engraving after a drawing variously attributed to Raphael (1483-1520), Gianfrancesco Penni (1496-after 1528) or Giulio Romano (1492-1546)

Fuente: http://www.tunickart.com/artists/cort.html

The head of Medusa

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
The head of Medusa, ca. 1617-18
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum

Fuente: http://www.codart.nl/

La pensée

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)La penséeCirca 1895Marble head; rough hewn baseParis, Musée d'Orsay
Fuente: blog

The Dragon devouring the companions of Cadmus

The Dragon devouring the companions of Cadmus, 1588
Hendrik Goltzius (publisher/printer; printmaker; painter/draughtsman; Dutch;  1558 - 1617)
Engraving

Fuente: http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/